Gangster Squad (movie)

One hundred and one years ago, D.W. Griffith gave us "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," often credited as the first gangster film, and once sound came in, nothing hooked movie audiences during the early 1930s more reliably than Edward G. Robinson or James Cagney doing harm to their rivals and, for a while, eluding the law while enjoying the spoils of their own private wars.

We love gangsters. We love especially the old-school models, factual or fictional, whose presence in the movies guarantees the reckless high living and outlandish acts of retribution and outre cruelty that made Paul Muni in Howard Hawks' "Scarface" such an inglorious pip. Muni's Tony Camonte was...

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